You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.

Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by Jonathan Pierce <Jo...@seagram.com> on 2000/05/04 01:27:31 UTC

Re[2]: A WAR issue

Jon,

The classes folder serves this purpose. If you really want to put things in the
WEB-INF/lib directory, then jar them up into a jar file and put the jar file in
instead.

____________________Reply Separator____________________
Subject:    Re: A WAR issue
Author: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Date:       5/3/00 4:10 PM

on 5/3/2000 4:03 PM, Craig McClanahan <Cr...@eng.sun.com> wrote:

> The spec only says "jar files", not zip files.  Tomcat could certainly do zips
> as well, but then the WAR files would not be portable.

Ok...not a big deal. I thought that .zip and .jar were essentially the same
thing though. I'm not sure what you mean by portable.

> If you want stuff like this, you probably want to put your properties file in
> WEB-INF/classes instead -- this directory as a whole is also added.

Ok that is one solution, but what if you also want un-jarred files in the
WEB-INF/lib directory?

-jon

--
Scarab -
      Java Servlet Based - Open Source
         Bug/Issue Tracking System
        <http://scarab.tigris.org/>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org